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Ok. What: Quite Soulless

By Jim Rossignol on November 15th, 2008 at 8:39 pm.


My intention was to download the 250mb demo and play some of Quite Soulless, by Vasily Zotov, and then offer some impressions. Sadly it works for a mere five seconds on my PC, just long enough to see a stiffly animated, mohawked protagonist turn around and waddle towards me. Perhaps the trailer, which is found after the cut, will give you a better insight into the entertainments contained within this unusual 3D adventure… Thanks to TIGSource for the link.

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  1. 15/11/2008 at 20:44 Biggles says:

    Oh my…

  2. 15/11/2008 at 20:45 Jahkaivah says:

    That throw up animation….. wow….

  3. 15/11/2008 at 20:46 Oddbob says:

    I had the same problem. I got a few moments into the first room, attempted to chat to someone and the whole game bombed out.

    Is that Gillian Anderson in the first screenshot?

  4. 15/11/2008 at 20:51 Klaus says:

    What was happening in that bathroom?
    A duel with a cockroach?

    I have no idea what this about. Regardless Jonothan – the protagonist, just seems high.

  5. 15/11/2008 at 20:56 Larington says:

    I don’t envy the roasting the makers will get from the graphics are everything zealots. Regardless, lots of awful, sluggish animations in there, made it painful to watch the video.
    Control issues too, though I’m curious about how they’ve done the interface, if I’m seeing that correctly, when you go to inventory you get a television screen view of the character and surroundings, not seen that before.

  6. 15/11/2008 at 21:12 Funkula says:

    Should’ve hired the Limbo of the Lost art team.

  7. 15/11/2008 at 21:30 Janek says:

    Why is Odo from Deep Space 9 coming out of that woman’s mouth.

  8. 15/11/2008 at 21:36 Larington says:

    I think I’d just like to add, Janek deserves a trophy for best post of the day.
    Made me laugh, out loud too.

  9. 15/11/2008 at 21:36 Klaus says:

    It works on my PC, it’s just incredibly peculiar. Lot’s of figure’s of speech. Dead Indians who are alive, beyond? the clouds… It’s just strange, I’ll give it a try when I’m not tired.

  10. 15/11/2008 at 21:48 Pags says:

    Possibly the best game I have played all year.

  11. 15/11/2008 at 22:02 Joe says:

    @ Pags
    What other games have you played?

  12. 15/11/2008 at 22:13 Pags says:

    I’ll leave it to someone else to point out I probably wasn’t being serious :)

    Gotta say though, it’s kind of compelling in that it’s just utterly bizarre.

  13. 15/11/2008 at 22:16 qrter says:

    This is.. what is this?

  14. 15/11/2008 at 22:20 Pags says:

    The best game you’ll play all year.

  15. 15/11/2008 at 22:41 qrter says:

    No longer possibly! It just is!

  16. 15/11/2008 at 22:45 Tainted says:

    What’s with the soundtrack?!

  17. 15/11/2008 at 22:51 Tannrar says:

    The soundtrack is perfection incarnate.
    It’s with your ears that the problem lies.

  18. 15/11/2008 at 23:02 sana says:

    Quite Soulless, more like Limbo of the Lost: Original Content Edition.

  19. 15/11/2008 at 23:45 Thiefsie says:

    Looks better than Myst

  20. 16/11/2008 at 00:39 Quater says:

    is it me, or is it 1996 in here?

  21. 16/11/2008 at 00:53 bobince says:

    Awesome! I always wanted to play Timecube: The Video Game.

    If you read the ‘story’ page it all makes perfect sense. Caution, spoilers! Well, unless Jonothan’s sister Stacy being killed by the Soviet Straight Walking Rat (which worked for the aliens) happens before the game starts, anyway.

  22. 16/11/2008 at 02:19 Arathain says:

    That’s the finest combat engine I’ve ever even heard of.

  23. 16/11/2008 at 02:27 Tom says:

    WTF was that?

  25. 16/11/2008 at 03:29 Jetsetlemming says:

    Wonder what percentage THIS game’ll get pirated.

  26. 16/11/2008 at 04:03 Greyface says:

    Shut your filthy elitist mouths. Don’t you Philistines understand that indy = awesome, regardless of quality, coherence, and content?

    Uncultured swine.

    Also, if the trailer doesn’t explain it, the site certainly does… :-\

  27. 16/11/2008 at 04:14 Haradan says:

    That has got to be THE most rediculous install procedure I’ve ever seen. First, you pick a directory to install the installer. The installer then runs and asks you to choose a directory to install the actual game. It then installs 7zip and Adobe Acrobat (each with their own installer). It’s rather strange.

    Next, after the game starts there’s the main menu, with strange flashing colours and something that seems to function like a rotary phone dial thingy. It has menu options around it that turn around when you press the down key (and ONLY the down key), but at first glance there seems absolutely no way of telling which of these options is actually selected. On closer inspection I found a dim arrow-like shape pointing to one option. So I go to see what’s in the options menu, which turns out to be a list of key functions rather than any actual options. Now that I’m unexpectedly furnished with a vague knowledge of what buttons to press I figure I’m ready to start the game.

    Unfortunately, what I then experienced in playing the game can only be effectively expressed in abstract expressionist painting. I’ll return for more in the morning when I’m not quite this freaked out.

  28. 16/11/2008 at 04:36 TheDeadlyShoe says:

    Is this crappy art or postmodern commentary on crappy art? I can’t tell.

  29. 16/11/2008 at 06:45 waffles says:

    If you take 1/2 of what this guy had you get Zoo Race, 1/4 of it gets you “wii” rather than revolution, and an 1/8 of it makes you trip balls.
    also, wat

  30. 16/11/2008 at 09:13 Alex says:

    Reminds me of the “Money for nothing” video clip.

  31. 16/11/2008 at 12:03 Alexander says:

    best link to demo ever

  32. 16/11/2008 at 12:45 Pags says:

    I literally cried with laughter at the first cutscene. Now I’m stuck on what I think is the first puzzle.

    Also, there’s an item called ‘stuff’ in the inventory. Genius.

  33. 16/11/2008 at 14:23 Sheepye says:

    I’m going to go huff superglue. It’s the only way to stop myself from being high now I’ve watched that link.

  34. 16/11/2008 at 14:59 solomun says:

    Yet another identikit UE3 shooter. Yawn.

  35. 16/11/2008 at 17:13 Furbomb says:

    Gun duel with a Kalashnikov wielding cockroach on it’s way to school?

    yes, why not? …

  36. 16/11/2008 at 17:45 Pags says:

    So many questions, so few answers. Why have I seemingly been discharged from a psychiatric hospital with a loaded gun and a hatchet? Why do I have the key to an alien machine which turns me into Rolf Harris (just as I was getting attached to the main character too, what a shame)? Why did that guy shoot those birds? Who was in that helicopter flying over what I’d like to describe as a prison run by cockroaches? Why did said helicopter crash? Why is my head now on the body of an enormous crow?

  37. 16/11/2008 at 17:48 Greyface says:

    Zoo Race? Oh sweet god, I’d forgotten. Time to bust out the video to drive the bf insane again!

    Yay!

  39. 16/11/2008 at 23:42 Jochen Scheisse says:

    It wasn’t ALL bad…I saw a nice camera angle. But the rest was quite bad.

  40. 16/11/2008 at 23:47 Jochen Scheisse says:

    I just saw that ZOO RACER GAME MOVIE and I would like to know if my drugs are on drugs.

  41. 17/11/2008 at 01:11 Greyface says:

    No, that’s the power of the lord. Not only can he launch horses unharmed out of cannon, he makes your drugs seem paltry by comparison.

    That’s faith.

  42. 17/11/2008 at 12:01 Haradan says:

    I downloaded the zoo racer game demo from zoorace.com and Avast says it’s a virus. I guess I won’t be playing it. :(

  43. 17/11/2008 at 15:47 phuzz says:

    I can barely cope with the awesomeness of the trailer, I don’t think I could play the game and stay sane.

  44. 17/11/2008 at 15:58 Bobsy says:

    Someone’s been taking Second Life a little too seriously.

    Best bit: rollercoaster tea trolley.

  45. 17/11/2008 at 16:12 Bobsy says:

    The website is absolute nonsensical gold. Here’s a few extracts from the game’s walkthrough:

    On the rat use the FATHER’S PICTURE (to conquer the soul of an animal, just like Indian in the blue smoke said). You are transforming to a rat, as a rat, follow the path, you tried to study above.

    Go through the tower, and on the dead end platform go right. You will fall out of the tower and understand the time, you were falling (15 sec). After that go back to the tower, inside the tower locate the stretcher on the wheels, take there knife, pills, bottle, USE the BOMB on the STRETCHER. Set the BOMB to 0:15 by pressing left-down-right arrows. Press Space near the STRETCHER.

    There is a crack in the glass. USE there the black rock. Talk to man. Go back to the double doors. Go left from the horseshoe looking building, pass on the tower with “0″ sign on it’s top, in the next tower go inside, see the lock and the inscription. Pass on this tower too and on the left in the next tower above the head on Napoleon find the connection console. In inventory look at the paper from the man in the underground jail and remember the phrase Case One.

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!

    YOU FALL IN THE HOLE IN THE END OF THE HORSESHOE!!!

    Fuck yes.

  46. 17/11/2008 at 16:18 C0nt1n1uty says:

    If monkeys and sweet refreshing crack werent involved in the development i’m going to be dissapointed.

  47. 24/11/2008 at 15:47 emdeehay says:

    oh my god… oh my god… oh my god…. oh my god.

    melt.

    oh my god.

  48. 24/08/2009 at 15:28 sbs says:

    Ahaha I forgot how awesome this was.

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